Opinion: Red Tape For Red Tape’s Sake

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... I ... I ... the ... the looking Chow I'm Mary Kissel ... the licensing issue a lot of red say ... but didn't really pay attention to the wars that they are brightly due to regulations even address the supposed problems ... that Washington says that they're trying to fix ... a dot Mercatus Center senior research fellow at Cherry deli on line ... to talk about his examination of this topic and Jerry ... you love that summing called economically significant rules what does that mean ... the leading roles that federal agencies issued a ... call center benefits or some other economic ... effect ... of a hundred million dollars or more he read every year ... so this is very expensive regulations ... when you look at how the government was approaching them ... what did you find ... what we ... headed to the agency is due to an ... analysis of these regulations ... we find that often they don't do a very good job of assessing the problem they're trying this all ... and it although probably trumps all it's hard to know whether regulation is necessary ... or whether you follow the solution ... and and and keep us in how the real world example of one of these cases ... usher in twenty eleven ... the part of their doctor proposed a regulation that would require a USDA inspectors in every catfish processing plant in the United States ... now this regulation was proposed in spite of the fact that ... there's been one incident salmonella linked to catch fish in the past twenty years ... most of the catfish plans already a national re inspection service for inspections ... and all the fish processing plants that ... have analysis critical control point plants that are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration ... of the two are in our culture did not really assess whether there is a big problem when costs that they simply said well we are entering the regulation because Congress will so ... it's kind of rent and her red face a side Gerri what impact does this have on business on the economy ... well danger when agencies will assess the problem in practice all this ... we get unnecessary regulations ... already and regulations that will release all the problems they're trying this all ... of Congress thinks the problem it's all ... and the problem isn't so often we get more red tape extraordinary McKay dissenters cereal and thanks very much